wombat2k
Occasional Visitor
Hi there,
I just upgraded from an Airport Extreme (the non dual-band version) to a WNDR3700 and I'm having some odd performance issues. I've been mostly using ping and Kismac to gauge performance as well speedtest.net although this will of course be less reliable. My router is downstairs and I'm pretty much right above. I'm in a neighborhood with APs aplenty, so interference is of course on my mind. I'm using a Macbook Pro for my tests.
With the Airport Express I would get an SNR in the low 30s. My pings would be fairly consistently between 5-10ms. On Speedtest.net I would get results that matched pretty much what I expected. I would be able to download a linux distro cd is in less than 30 minutes. I was mostly happy this setup. with, but would get the occasional glitch when streaming and Rhapsody would not stream unless I lowered the quality of the bitrate to 64bit.
After installing the WNDR3700, the SNR is better. It is consistently in the high 30s-lower 40s for the 2.4ghz band. The 5ghz band tends to be in the low 20s. Pinging is a disaster, instead of a fairly constant ping, I get an odd pattern of a very quick ping (~1ms), a slower ping (~50-100ms) and a way slower ping (~500ms). The average ping is 171ms, nothing like the 7ms I was getting with the Airport. This happens on both bands. Downloading an ISO from the 2.4ghz is slow and the speed will fluctuate constantly. Speedtest reports a download speed of 1.5mbps, way less than what is reported on the Airport. The 5ghz seems to be more stable, but not by much.
Any ideas? Is it possible I'm not measuring things properly or using the wrong tools? I expected the performance on my netgear to be at least as good the airport, especially considering the reviews that I've seen on here.
Sorry for the long post!
I just upgraded from an Airport Extreme (the non dual-band version) to a WNDR3700 and I'm having some odd performance issues. I've been mostly using ping and Kismac to gauge performance as well speedtest.net although this will of course be less reliable. My router is downstairs and I'm pretty much right above. I'm in a neighborhood with APs aplenty, so interference is of course on my mind. I'm using a Macbook Pro for my tests.
With the Airport Express I would get an SNR in the low 30s. My pings would be fairly consistently between 5-10ms. On Speedtest.net I would get results that matched pretty much what I expected. I would be able to download a linux distro cd is in less than 30 minutes. I was mostly happy this setup. with, but would get the occasional glitch when streaming and Rhapsody would not stream unless I lowered the quality of the bitrate to 64bit.
After installing the WNDR3700, the SNR is better. It is consistently in the high 30s-lower 40s for the 2.4ghz band. The 5ghz band tends to be in the low 20s. Pinging is a disaster, instead of a fairly constant ping, I get an odd pattern of a very quick ping (~1ms), a slower ping (~50-100ms) and a way slower ping (~500ms). The average ping is 171ms, nothing like the 7ms I was getting with the Airport. This happens on both bands. Downloading an ISO from the 2.4ghz is slow and the speed will fluctuate constantly. Speedtest reports a download speed of 1.5mbps, way less than what is reported on the Airport. The 5ghz seems to be more stable, but not by much.
Any ideas? Is it possible I'm not measuring things properly or using the wrong tools? I expected the performance on my netgear to be at least as good the airport, especially considering the reviews that I've seen on here.
Sorry for the long post!